Back to Medieval Source Book | ORB Main Page | Links to Other Medieval Sites | Medieval Sourcebook: Tacitus: Germania Tacitus, an important Roman historian, wrote the most detailed early description of the Germans at then end of the first century CE.. In doing so, be warned, he was commenting on the Rome of his own time, as much as on the German themselves. Note that although this is most of ...

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: Tacitus: The End of the Republic Tacitus begins the Annals by describing how the civil war and proscriptions (mass executions of political opponents) had destroyed the Republic. Rome at the beginning was ruled by kings. Freedom and the consulship were established by Lucius Brutus. Dictatorships were held for a temporary crisis. The ...

Back to Medieval Source Book | ORB Main Page | Links to Other Medieval Sites | Medieval Sourcebook: Tacitus: Germania, trans. Thomas Gordon Introductory Note The dates of the birth and death of Tacitus are uncertain, but it is probable that he was born about 54 A. D. and died after 117. He was a contemporary and friend of the younger Pliny, who addressed to him some of his most famous epistles.

A history of Ancient Rome concerning the three short-lived emperors of A.D. 69, Galba, Otho and Vitellius, and the three emperors of the succeeding Flavian dynasty (Vespasian, 69-79; Titus, 79-81; and Domitian, 81-96). Originally twelve or fourteen books in length, the Histories survive to the extent of the first four and a portion of the fifth, covering the 'Year of the Four Emperors' A.D. 69, ...

Home Location Faculty Programs Courses Current Events Latin Day Resources Professor Rutledge excavating at Corinth. Associate Professor Steven H. Rutledge (srutled@deans.umd.edu) graduated with his bachelors from the University of Massachusetts at Boston in 1989 and earned his doctorate from Brown University in 1996. He also attended the American Academy in Rome (summer 1994) and was a student ...

Vol.1, no.1, index Get a free issue on Roman Britain Athena Review Vol.1, No.1 Description by Tacitus of the Rebellion of Boudicca (AD 60-61) . Chapter 29. During the consulship of Lucius Caesennius Paetus and Publius Petronius Turpilianus , a dreadful calamity befell the army in Britain. Aulus Didius, as has been mentioned, aimed at no extension of territory, content with maintaining the ...